[bigsmooth]

as SJ said, since it is a bye week we are in need of some material so i thought i would give an update on our future big south member Stony Brook University and a quick profile on this school which i feel is a great addition to the big south.

STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY
founded- 1957 as State Uinversity of New York at Stony Brook
enrollment- 22, 257 (14,581 undergrduate)
endowment- 110 million
notable alumni- Jorge Benach- co discoverer of Lyme Disease, Chen Ning Yang- Nobel Prize/Physics, Paul Lauterbur- Nobel Prize/Physiology or Medicine
other notbale information- they have three other campuses in manhattan, southampton, and flowerfield which is a research and development campus only.

2007 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
3-3 OVERALL
sept 1 georgetown w 35-28
sept 8 at bucknell w 48-20
sept 15 at youngstown st (#12) L 42-6
sept 22 monmouth w 21-15
sept 29 at hofstra (#10) L 33-28
oct 6 at albany L 24-23
oct 13 at richmond(#20)
oct 20 maine
oct 27 bryant university(#25 D2)
nov 10 Central Conn St.
nov 17 at Elon

teams stony brook beat are a combined (3-14)
teams stony brook lost to are (11-5). the loss to hofstra comes to mind to show how competitive they are and when they close out the year at Elon at least we will have a common opponent though by then you really can't gauge it at all.

FACILITY
Kenneth P. Lavalle Stadium
capacity- 8,136
surface- fieldturf
amenities- four luxury suites, plus two open air reception areas, and 500 cahirback seats on each side of stadium
notbale fact- field is 10 feet below ground.

[somethingbrewing]

they are going to make a fine addition to the Big South Conference I believe

[El Scorcho]

Nearly $5k in endowment funds for every student enrolled. Not too shabby.

After yesterday's convo, I'm starting to judge every school by their endowment fund.

[bigsmooth]

what happened in convo?

[Fumblerooskies]

Nearly $5k in endowment funds for every student enrolled. Not too shabby.

After yesterday's convo, I'm starting to judge every school by their endowment fund.

Nothing wrong with judging ANYTHING by how well endowed...

[RagingTireFire]

Nearly $5k in endowment funds for every student enrolled. Not too shabby.

After yesterday's convo, I'm starting to judge every school by their endowment fund.

Nothing wrong with judging ANYTHING by how well endowed...

What he said.

Seriously, what happened in convo?

[El Scorcho]

Jr. was discussing the $2.5m real estate donation we had at the beginning of the year and (in passing) said we'd like to have $100k per student enrolled in our endowment fund. That's the long-term goal, I suppose. The students were behind it because he also mentioned it could drop their tuition rates by $5-10k (at today's rate I'm assuming.)

So, for me, I'm now looking at the dollar per student ratio (DPSR, I like to call it) of other schools.

[BJWilliams]

Jr said something about how as the endowment grows, it means a significant savings in tuition and the students went bonkers (well the ones who aren't graduating this year at least)

[LUconn]

what's the word on alumni reimbursment? I want a prorated refund.

[thepostman]

I am sure this has been posted elsewhere, but do we play them here next year or there? or not at all?

[DutchyNY]

endowment is how the true big time schools really can be judged; for instance Harvard has a 25 billion dollar endowment, and thats not a typo that is actually 2005's figure. they have about 19k in students out there so do the math...ur talkin millions per student, that said liberty is a tenth as old so a short term goal of 100k per student is a fair start....as far as stony brook goes it'll be nice to see how a state university competes in the big south against predominantly private institutions

[Baldspot]

3......2......1..... on a subject we all care about, Samford's endowment per student.

[Schfourteenteen]

HAHAHAHAHA actually Hoops is too busy ranting about politics, and outside that, has no time for pety arguements with the likes of us. Besides why would he come to the football section when everything that matters in life is in the "Samford ....." thread.

[jcmanson]

I am sure this has been posted elsewhere, but do we play them here next year or there? or not at all?

I'm not sure if we know yet. The Big South will determine that. Some of the current members will go there, some will have them come to their place. The same is true of Presby.

[SuperJon]

Stony Brook is here.